What's your disability?
I have a learning disability.
What is the most difficult part of your disability?
For me its being slow when my brain sometimes either moves toooo fast or not fast enough and I have to take longer on stuff.
I have chronic migraines, short-term memory loss, generalized anxiety disorder, OCD, and recurrent major depression @Evois
I am a type one diabetic asthmatic mental health problems dyselixa and stomach problems too name a few.
If anyone is a type one diabetic and would be able to talk to me please message me. Could do with some diabetic freinds.
I was injured at work about 3 years ago. I now have chronic back pain and am waiting to see if my employer will medically retire me... because I haven
@quietOak8398 :( that sounds really though... especially with not being believed... I've had people question my disabilities too as though im pretending and the questioning hurts a lot sometimes, especially from family members.
@ReclusiveReptile I appreciate that. He has agreed to go to individual counseling... so hopefully it helps... all I want is emotional support...
irritable bowel syndrome (c variety), dyscalculia, depression, generalized anxiety disorder, post traumatic stress disorder.
sending love to everyone suffering.
forgot a few things (oops): high frequency hearing loss, chronic tinnitus and hyperacusis.
schizophrenia poor concentration and memory loss
I have hemiplegic cerebral palsy, a nonverbal learning disability, and GAD
I have ASD.
I have dyslexia as my disability... yes its a learning disability but it causes a lot of anxiety and depression and many other things in life to occur. Its been hard, Im going into the tenth grade honestly I dont know how lol but I am, there are things third graders know how to do that I have spent five years trying to learn and still barely know anything. Its hard being dyslexic and in a goofy relationship, because if you really do something stupid and yall joke around and he calls you stupid you cant remeber wether to laugh or cry because any other time you get called stupid or slow they dont mean it as funny or they do but they dont know your dyslexic and it hurts what hurts most is when the people who know call you stupid because physically you feel that way. Its hard... Ive broke down in class because of it I was sitting in math class the teacher was helping me what is _ times _ I reached my hand out to get the calculator off of my desk and she said nope you dont need that and she took it and my anxiety shot through the roof she said *** whats the answer I said I dont know! She said yes you do whats ... I started crying and yelling saying I dont know and she said *** you really dont know? And I said yes would I be sitting here crying and scared and embarrassed if I did? She said ok I will leave you alone and ever since then she lets me use a calculator and helps me as much as possible. Its hard but Ive learned to live with it.
Well for most of my life I didn't consider this a disability, I still have a hard time doing so and I'm really not sure if anyone else would consider it one. Part of it is that, if it did have a name or term, I don't remember it, and part of it is that this disability can be resolved over time if you really work hard enough at it.
Anyways, I have very thick bladder walls and a smaller than average bladder in general, and when I have to use the bathroom, it's very rarely my brain saying, 'oh, hey, get to the bathroom the next chance you have,' it's very suddenly, like you're a bird flying into a glass window, 'GO NOW NOW GO' with almost no warning. I have to drop whatever I'm doing and crouch down so I don't just piss where I'm standing like a toddler and the longer I take to get to the bathroom, the more my back starts to hurt, and it often hurts for about half an hour after I finally get there.
On the scale of painful disabilities, I wouldn't give it more than a 5/10 (although it has caused a lot of UTI's) but it's a 15/10 for absolutely humiliating. In middle school kids called me fish girl. Who knows how much my mom had to spend on meds and physical therapy that didn't work and diapers, that was the most humiliating thing every night. Also, I've found that disabilities like this compared to anorexia or depression aren't romanticized, and aren't painted in a heroic light like people with amputations or are blind or deaf. It's just gross. Plenty of four yea
@Sam3443 I don't understand the fish girl thing. Care to explain? But anyways, I also have a bladder problem. It's been overactive my whole life. Totally agree that it's not romanticized, just treated as gross. Being desperate to pee all the time is humiliating and I definitely got bullied in school. I recently started wearing diapers anytime I leave the house because I'm so tired of rushing to find a bathroom constantly. I've seen both a urologist and physical therapist, and so far nothing has helped.
@Sam3443
@Sam3443 ugh, bladder problems are the absolute worst! Dx my issues aren't as severe as when i was a kid and would often come home in different pants than i went to school in, but the thing about it not being romanticized is so true. I'm 20 and i still haven't dared to tell my best friends why i never did come to any sleep overs...
anxiety, depression, OCD